The Joe Osborn Signature Series Bass - No Average Joe
A case can be made that Joe Osborn is the premier studio bassist of all time. Here’s the evidence…Joe played on: Travelin’ Man, This Diamond Ring, Eve Of Destruction, Monday Monday, Poor Side of Town, Windy, Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In, Wedding Bell Blues, Dizzy, (They Long To Be) Close to You, Cracklin’ Rosie, I Think I Love You, Bridge Over Troubled Water, I Am Woman, Top of The World, Delta Dawn, Billy Don’t Be a Hero, Please Mr. Postman…And those are just the Pop Rock #1 Hits!
What Joe has done on the electric bass is nothing short of staggering. The list of artists with whom he has worked reads like a “Who’s Who” of popular music, and includes: The Mamas and the Papas, Johnny Rivers, Rick Nelson, Simon and Garfunkel, The Carpenters, The Fifth Dimension, Glen Campbell, The Association, Neil Young, and America to name a few. Joe holds four Hat Awards from The Academy of Country Music, was the recipient of Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and his list of Billboard hits runs as long as a country mile.
Joe Comes Home Joe Osborn played his original 1960 bass on more than two hundred Top 40 pop singles and over four hundred Top 40 country singles before he decided to set his vintage axe aside to give it some R&R. The ‘60 gave Joe a tone and playability that no other bass was able to match…until now! Our collaboration with one of the music industry’s most influential electric bass players yielded a masterpiece of simplicity and usability.
Jazzed With Joe, we labored over the design of this instrument to combine the leading edge of sixties technology (the slim neck and narrow nut, the offset-body balancing, and concentric control knobs) and applied today’s leading edge technology (graphite reinforcement, enhanced neck joint, passive pickups by Lindy Fralin) to create a contemporary classic.
Now With 25% More String! The Lakland Joe Osborn 5-Sring
The Joe Osborn Signature model is available in a 5-string version. This bass – which we like to call the JoBo 5 – has the same "updated classic" tone as our original Joe Osborn 4-strings, but is combined with the modern design appointments that make our 5-strings work. You know what that means.
More definition than a dictionary! 35 inches! That’s the scale length of the new JoBo 5 and the reason all LAKLAND 5’s sound so good, so low! When you talk about clarity, tautness and tone in regards to the low B, you’re talking about our passion!
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